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How can you compare mutilating a living, feeling animal with something which is born that way? While neither may not be right, all crimes are not as bad as each other.

What's your take on a mother that does drugs while pregnant? Is it okay since the baby isn't actually born yet? People create these deformed creatures, so whether they were bred that way or done after the fact, these fish still live miserable lives.

Do not support dyed fish

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Like I said, there is no answer. I never claimed to know the ratio of good BPs versus bad BPs. I merely said that both exist.

Perhaps you should start your own thread about it, rather than ruining yet another one. You can educate us all on the problems of breeding for traits. This one is about fish that are injected with dye. It's probably less fun to start your own thread, isn't it?

I would hate to have to close this thread lead to any drama and have to close

Just a concern everyone

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dyed fish. we have a local LFS that "prides" itself to be the nicest in the area (which by coincidence has the highest prices...funny) and for the past year, they've had great stock. however this past time I went there they had "balloon mollies" that were dyed. I almost wanted to sedate the entire tank as I couldn't bear to see that many mollies with weird "tattoo's" and colors.

so all that said, this lfs has lost my business completely. i'll manage and chose to drive extra miles to support an LFS that has higher morals.

So...I am personally not really interested in glowing fish, but I like to be educated so I can correctly answer questions from those who seek my advice correctly.

I was just browsing youtube videos and saw this

In this video the claim is that the green tetra is also expressing the altered genes just like the danios. I have always thought of them as a dyed fish. Is there any way to know how to tell the difference between a dyed fish and a genetically altered fish?

Whatever your ethics, you could argue that the genetically modified are much more acceptable because they weren't tortured to get that coloration, rather they were bred in a lab.

Yes, they were bred in a lab, but the process they undergone was very similar [at first] to dyed fish. They had to be removed from the water and injected with a needle in order to make them fluoresce. Who knows how many trials this took and how many fish died to get the process right. But now with their mutated genes they're able to breed them and the babies keep the fluorescence and they don't need to go through that process anymore.

Yes, they were bred in a lab, but the process they undergone was very similar [at first] to dyed fish. They had to be removed from the water and injected with a needle in order to make them fluoresce. Who knows how many trials this took and how many fish died to get the process right. But now with their mutated genes they're able to breed them and the babies keep the fluorescence and they don't need to go through that process anymore.

That is not accurate. The fish themselves were not injected, but rather the eggs. The jellyfish DNA was injected into the developing eggs, and assimilated.